Muckle Cross, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 June 1982. Monument.
Muckle Cross, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- buried-bailey-sedge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1982
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NJ 216 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64879, -3.31469
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Muckle Cross in Elgin is a monument designed by Sydney Mitchell in 1888. It features a 12-foot high hexagonal base raised on three steps, styled after a structure that was destroyed around 1650. The base is made of ashlar and has fluted pilasters at each corner topped with Ionic capitals and gargoyles. There are shell-headed niches with seats on five sides, with an entrance to the platform on the sixth side. The tall parapet is adorned with panelled pilasters and displays the St Giles emblem on the eastern face. Atop the structure is a 12-foot high granite shaft that supports a lion rampant holding a shield.
Local climate
Muckle Cross, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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